[philip.j.fry]

Originally Posted by Steve H

Your decision at the end of the day, no need to be nasty about it

I agree, at the end of the day it comes down to a personal choice. I love Firefox, but I do also like many aspects of I.E, it renders pages nice and fast and the layout of the controls is good. I.E is no longer an option for me though, unless I want to spend my time rebooting my p.c into Windows.

So I don't have a problem with IE per se, but I do have issues with the philosophy behind it...that is to take an existing open standard and pervert it so that any sites developed for it won't work in other browsers. The W3C standard is out there, along with many related standards such as ECMAscript for Javascript, so there is simply no excuse for developers writing for one browser only (on the internet, intranets are different). It's just sloppiness on the part of the developers and they do themselves and their visitors a disservice by working in IE only. Okay, rant over, had better stop before I get onto Microsoft's perversion of Java

BTW, anybody else use Lynx (or Links), it's great for reading books online.